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Show 1:: ram? afooMMON-WEALTH.‘ , Chip. 2: gm 2: ofco MMO N-WE A z TH. Iawfull, and go commonly by the name of Fafiions, or Confpira- Chaf.2§.‘ be no power given to any one Man,orAifembly (as in the condition ofmeer Nature ) to Compell them to performance, 15 f0 long onely valid, as there arifeth no jufi caufe of dri'trufl: and therefore {and men come to prefent it, it is a tumultuous AflEmbl ' ; beCaufc' there needs but one or two for that purpofe. But in deh cafes as the (c, it is nota fer number that makes the Ail'embly Unlawful], but fuck a number, as the pre fent Officers are not able to fuppreffe, and Leagues between Common-wealths, over whom there rs no humane bring to Jufiice. Potver el'tablifned, to keep them all in awe, are nor onely lawfull, but When an unufuall number of men, affemble a ainfl a man Whom they acaife ; the AHEmbly is an Unlawfull tumuFt; becaufe they ma cies. For a League being a connexron ofmen by Covenants, if there alfo profitable for the time theylafi. But Leagues of the Subjeéts of one and the fame Common-wealth, where every one may obtain hrs rioht by means ofthe Soveraign Power, are unneceffary to the main- taining of Peace and Jultice, and (in cafe the defigne of them be evill, or unknown to the Common-wealth )unlawfull. For all. unr- ting of flycngth by private men, rs,rf for evrllrntent, unjul't; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Pubquue, and uniuflly concealed. Ifthe Soveraign Power be in a great Alfembly,‘ and a number of Srrwt C.r-' men, art of the Affembly, Without.authorrty,confult a part, to Con64h. cy un.‘ trive t e guidance of the refs; Thrsrs'a Faé‘tron, or Confprra lawfull, as being a fraudulent feducin‘g of the Affembly for their particularintereft. Butif he, whofe private rntereftis to be debated, and judged in the Allembly, make as many friends as he can 5 in him it is no Injuflice ,becaufe in this cafe he rs no part of the Affembly. And though he hire fuch friends with mony, (unleile there be an exprelle Law againitim yet it is not Iniufirce. For fometrmes, (as mens manners are,) Jul'tice cannot be had Without mony -, and every Fwd: of pvi- man may think his own caufe jufi, till it be heard, and judged. In all Common-wealths, if a private man entertarn more fervants, mic Fami- than the government of his eftate, and lawfull employment he has for them re uires, it is Faétion, and unlawfull. For havmg the pro‘ her. teé'tion of t e Common-wealth, he needeth not the defence of pri- 5‘23 dclivcrthcll‘ accul'ation to the Magifirare by a few, or by one man Such was the cafe of St.Panl at Ephrfw; where Dcmetrim, and 2i teat number of other men, brought two of Paul: companiOns bein. [he Magiflrate, faying with one Voyce, Great is Diana of the Effiefi‘mr, which was their way of demanding jui'rice againlt them for teaching the people fuch doétrine, as was againfl: their Relicion» and Trade. The occalion here, confidering Lawes of that I'm: pie, was juit; ct was their Alfembly judgedthe LInIawfulLand the Ma- gifirate repre ended them for it, inthefe words, * 1fDemetrius and re A5; ‘ 1115 other work-men can arm/e any 7mm, of any thing, there he Pleas, 4o 1 19" and Deputies, let them accufc one another. And 1f you have any other thin to demand, your cafe may he jua' edin an A emhl Law led. gFor we are in danger to he armfealgfor this dag" féglitionfihfgaftfi there is no emf: h} which any man am render any red/m qf 24,55 Can: cow/e of People. Where he calleth an Allembly, whereof men can give no jufl account, a Sedition, and fuch as they could not anfwcr: for. And this is all I ihall fay concerning S francs, and Afl'embl es of People, which may be compared (as I aid, ) to the Similar pah‘ts of mans Body ; iuch as be Lawfull, to the Mufcles; fuch as are Unlawful], to chs, Biles and A ofiemes en endred b th conflux of will humorirs. J g P y e unnatural! i vate force. And whereas in Nations not throughly civilized, feverall W- numerous Families have lived in continuall hoftilit ,and invaded one C H A P. XXIII. anorher with private force ,yet it is evident enough, that they have done unjuflly, or elfe that they had no Common-wealth. And as Faétions for Kindred, fo alfo Factions for Government of {wander qmrmm. Religion, as of Papiils, Proteilants,c§‘r. or of State, as Patricians, and Plebeians of old time in Rome, and of Ariflocraticalls and Democraticalls of old time in Greece, are unjufi, as being contrary to the eace and fafety of the people, and a taking of the Sword out of the rand of the Soverai n. Concourfe of people, rs an Irregular Syfl'eme, the lawfulnefle , or unlawfulneife, whereof dependet i on the occafion, and on the num- ber of them that are aifembled. If the occafion be lawful], and mav nifefl,the Concourfe is lawfull; as the ufuall meeting of men at Church, or at apublique Shew, in ufuall numbers : for if the numbers be extraordinarily great, the occafion is nor evident 5 and confe- offlat‘PHBLIQuE M INISTERSOf Summign Tower. I N the laft Chapter I have fpoken of the Similar parts of a Com; mon-wealth : In this I {hallf eak of th are Publique Miniflers. ' - P e parts Organrcall, ,Whmh APUBLIQUE MINISTER is . he, that by. the Soveraio a n 7: a! ' (whether a Monarch, or an Affemblya) 15 employed in an , affai és: chill/'2: wrth Authority to reprefent in that errip IOyment, the Per on of the WI». Eommon-wealtlr And whereas every man, or affe overaignty, reprefentcth two Perfons or as the mbly that hath ‘ phraie rs ) has two Capacities, one Natrirallfand and?h(:i‘cP(b<IiiiIriiizn (as quently he that cannot render a particular and good account of his being amongfl them, is to be judged confcious of an unlatvfull, and tumultuous efigne. It may be lawfull for a thoufand men, to joyn ahlonarch, hath the perfon not onely of but 4110 of amanganda Soveraign Affemblythe Common-wealtha $513,!) off the Common-wealth, but alfo of hath the Perfon no; the Affembly ) - they Milli in a Petition tobe delivered to a Judge, or Magifirate; yet if a rigor: an inr crs; but thofe onely that ferve them in they, are not Ptiblique Adminiflration of CIV ants tothem in their naturall Capacit B the |